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Planning is concerned with how a development looks, fits in with its surroundings, its effect on the local neighbourhood, community, traffic and the historic and natural environment. You need planning permission as an authorisation to do a development work.

Planning permission is different from building warrant. To carry out work legally, you usually need both.

There are some things that you need to know before applying for a permission:

For complex local developments, we would recommend you to use our Planning Processing Agreement (PPA). This project management tool will help you identify key processes, information you need provide and timescales.

What you need to provide

We need you to provide the relevant documentation for your proposed works with your application: